Oct. 20: President Obama shakes hands with Capt. John Poindexter in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

For Army Capt. John Poindexter, being awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for heroism Tuesday marked an "opportunity to close a chapter" in his life.

"The general feeling is a pretty intense level of excitement," Poindexter told Foxnews.com just before he and 85 other Vietnam veterans were honored at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

"It will mean to me that I've filled an important duty to the men who I literally owe my life to, men who supported me in a desperate battle 40 years ago in the jungles along the Cambodian border."

Poindexter, 65, was one of 86 veterans of Troop A, 1st Squadron of the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment who were honored for defining the meaning of "bravery and heroism," President Obama said.

"As these men will you tell you themselves, this isn't the story of a battle that changed the course of a war," Obama said. "It never had a name, like Tet or Hue or Khe Sanh. It never made the papers back home. But like countless battles, known and unknown, it is a proud chapter in the story of the American soldier."

The group volunteered to rescue an American infantry company surrounded by enemy forces on the Cambodian border on March 26, 1970. ..."

"...surrounded by enemy forces on the Cambodian border on March 26, 1970."

For historical reference, this was 3 weeks after members of Obama's pals', Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's, Weather Underground accidentally blew themselves up in a New York City townhouse while preparing to bomb a military facility at Fort Dix, NJ.

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

On July 23, 1970, a federal grand jury in Detroit indicted 13 members of the Weatherman group, including Dohrn, accusing them of conspiring, in the words of a U.S. Senate committee report, to build a nationwide revolutionary network to bomb and kill. Nearly three months later she was added to the FBIs most wanted fugitives.

She was on the lam, but still waging war on Amerika.

On Nov. 30, 1970, she sent another billet-doux to her country via the Associated Press.

It read:

In retaliation for the commando raid and bombing of North Vietnam, attacks will be carried out on pigs [police], military and governmental buildings and agents without warning. ...

The U.S. aggressors will be punished here and in Vietnam. All power to the people.

From American Thinker, September 16, 2008Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World  where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate'  both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers." Article: The Company He Keeps: Meet Obamas circle: The same old America-hating Lefthttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA== ______________________________________________

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the meta theme of the conference by hearing success stories from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

“Last fall, over 250 Vietnam veterans from Charlie and Echo Company, which consists of Vietnam veterans from the the BN 5th Cav, 1st Calvary Division, visited the wall along the banks of the St. Francis River. They took part in a special candlelight vigil and laid a wreath featuring their symbol at the wall. In a touching measure, they planted a tree to leave a lasting mark.”

These guys came over to the Pentagon yesterday afternoon and were broken up into small groups with individual tour guides. Most of them lingered in the corridor closest to the crash site and actively discussed/questioned their guides. Nice looking guys who dressed well.

These guys came over to the Pentagon yesterday afternoon and were broken up into small groups with individual tour guides. Most of them lingered in the corridor closest to the crash site and actively discussed/questioned their guides.

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON (my title)_________________________________________________________

From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008: "By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'Were revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the groups multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

In addition to the previously mentioned, Obama also gave a blurb for Bill Ayers' book, sat on the board of the Woods Fund with him for several years, was his partner at the Annenberg Challenge-sponsored program in Chicago, and joined him at various other public speaking events. He's also now claiming to have ghost-written Obama's book, "Dreams From My Father".

From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive  132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead) various sources

Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL

"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

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